Pedro Wirz

Biography

geboren / born 1981 in São Paulo - BR
lebt und arbeitet / lives and works in Zürich, CH

www.pedrowirz.com/

AUSBILDUNG / EDUCATION
2007 - 2011
Bachelor’s degree at FHNW Basel - CH, Institute os Arts, Institute of Arts
– Class of Jürg Stäuble, Dr. Roman Kurzmeyer and Muda Mathis

2009 - 2010
Erasmus at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart - D, Institute of Arts
Institute of Arts - Class of Birgit Brenner and of Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganahl

2004 - 2006
Internship as assistant of photography - BR and CH

1999 - 2003
Bachelors’ degree at University of Taubaté - BR, Institut of Communication - Public Relations

STIPENDIEN UND AUSZEICHNUNGEN / SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2023
Winner Bally Artist Award 2023

2017
Young Academy, Akademie der Künste, Berlin - D

2016
Artist in Residence - Swiss Institute Rome, Rome - IT

2014
Artist in Residence - IAAB Exchange Program
Residency Unlimited, New York - US

2012
Werkbeitrag - Kunstkredit der Stadt Basel, Basel - CH
Artist in Residence - Post Studio Tales, Berlin - D
Peter-Hans-Hofschneider-Prize
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart - D

2011
Artist in Residence - IAAB Exchange Program
Cité des Arts, Paris - F
GGG Atelierhaus - 2 years subsidized atelier - GGG Basel Foundation

2010
Prize for publication on contemporary art, Biennial Foundation, São Paulo - BR
Prize for Brazilian artist abroad, Biennial Foundation, São Paulo - BR
Patronage for young Swiss artists - Kunsthalle Basel, Basel - CH

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN / SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
"Diplomatic Immunity", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Köln - D
"Diplomatic Immunity – Bally Artist Award 2023", MASILugano, Lugano - IT

2022
"Environmental Hangover", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel - CH
"Brixe", Museum Schaffen, Winterthur - CH

2020
Season opening Zürich, GALERIE PHILIPP ZOLLINGER - CH
"Termine Terminators", Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA - US
GALERIE PHILIPP ZOLLINGER, ARCO, Lisbon - PRT
Gramercy International Prize, Presentation at The Armory Show, New York - US
Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York - US

2019
Verwachsen, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin - D
a curbing wall of debrislandfilling, Kunsthaus Langenthal - CH
Wiþ Ymbe, GALERIE PHILIPPZOLLINGER, Madulain - CH
A Curbing Wall of Debris Nesting, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris - FR
Terra Quente, LongTang, Zürich - CH

2018
breasfed tadpole, Kai Matsumiya, New York – US
Jan Kiefer, Pedro Wirz, 2018, Reisebürogalerie / Diko Reisen, Köln – D

2017
Fábula, Frisson, Melancolia, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo - BR (together with Tiago Tebet and Marcelo Cipis)
Dobrar de Espinho, Anzol, Murias Centeno Gallery, Porto - PT

2016
Irmão dos Homens Todos at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow - UK (together with Mauro Cerqueira)
Ovo por Olho, Unsere Umwelt Gallery, Basel - CH
The Horse Who Drunk Beer, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York - US

2013
Novos Amigos, CCSP, São Paulo - BR
Gringo, Mendes & Wood DM, SP - BR
Tropical, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund - D

2012
Not the New, Not the Old, But the Necessary,
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart - D
Hotel Palenque at Gasconade, Milano - IT (Swiss Institute‘s Bureau for Art Nerds)
Problems - Kunstraum Kreuzligen, Kreuzligen - CH (together with Raphael Linsi)

2011
Backwall Projeckt - Kunsthalle Basel - CH
Outsiders - SALTS, Birsfelden - CH
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Deuxpiece, Basel - CH

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN / GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève - CH.
gift – toxische Geschenke, FROH USSICHT, Samstagern - CH.

2022
Artissima Art Fair, Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, Turin. 

2021
"1ST MESEBERG INTERNATIONAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Meseberg, Gransee.

2019
"MASKE in der Kunst und Gegenwart", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau – CH.

2018
"ZEITSPUREN. The Power of Now", Kunsthaus Centre D'Art Pasquart, Biel – CH
JUNGE AKADEMIE – AGORA ARTES, Stipendiatenausstellung, Akademie der Künste, Berlin - D

2017
KölnSkulptur #9, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne - D
Ex Situ - Samples of Lifeforms, Copenhagen Contemporary - DK
Art Cologne, Kai Matsumiya Gallery - Cologne - D
Proxysm of Union - Kunsthale Freeport, Athenes - GR
Camaléonica - CACP Coimbra - P
Look, all this is fraud - Milieu, Bern - CH

2016
ROY DA PRINCE - FUTURA, Prague - CZ
NADA Miami - Kai Matsumiya Gallery, Miami - US
CODE art Fair, Copenhagen - DK
Haus #99, Basel - CH
Dead Among The Dead!, EllisKing Gallery, Dublin - IE
Prière de Toucher, Tinguely Museum, Basel - CH

2015
Courtesy of SALTS, SALTS, Birsfelden - CH
NADA Miami - Kai Matsumiya Gallery, Miami - US
Tableau - Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York City - US
FULL HOUSE - Shanaynay, Paris - FR
Swiss Art Awards, Basel - CH
Môtiers 2015 - Art en plein air, Môtiers - CH
Moves and Countermoves, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art - US
Jac Leirner, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels - BE
Nimm‘s mal easy - Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel - CH

2014
Screening (with Sonia Kacem), Deuxpiece, New York City - US
Union - Union Pacific Gallery, London - GB
Absence of the evil is the evil of absence - Residency Unlimited, New York City - US
Tell Me What I See, When I Look Into Your Eyes, BolteLang, Zürich - CH

2013
Come, all ye faithful! - Florian Christopher, Zürich - CH
Give me Shelter - GGG Atelierhaus, Basel - CH
Mitologias por procuração - MAM-SP, São Paulo - BR
Wet-on-Wet, Gallery Florian Weingrüll, Karlsruhe - D
Swiss Art Awards, Basel - CH
Club des Sous l‘Eau - Palais de Tokyo, Paris - FR
The Sunday Curators - SWG1 Gallery - Glasgow - UK
THE BODY IS THE MEDIUM - Curatorial Lab SP-Arte, São Paulo - BR

2012
Les Urbaines Art Festival - Lausanne - CH
LOT - Cul de Sac, London - GB
Platform 12 - Kunstwollen, Zurich - CH
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe -
Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen - CH

2011
Mitologias I Mythologies - Cité des Arts, Paris - F
Cantonale Berne Jura - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern - CH
Cantonale Berne Jura - Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern - CH
Regionale 12 - Kunstraum L6, Freiburg - D
How to Work (more for) Less - Kunsthalle Basel, Basel - CH
Floor Wall Piece - Von Bartha Garage, Basel - CH
Swiss Art Awards (Kiefer Hablitzel), Basel - CH
7, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg - D

2010
Regionale 11: Village Cry - Kunsthalle Basel, Basel - CH
Rundgang 2010 - Staatliche Akademie der
Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart - D
Blokkade - Universal Cube, Leipzig - D
1. Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria, São Paulo - BR

2009
Regionale 10 - Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg - D

2008
The line is a lonely hunter - New Jerseyy, Basel - CH

KURATORISCHE PROJEKTE / CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016
PANORAMA BOA VISTA, Porto - PT (with Raphael Linsi)

2014 - ongoing
Postcodes (with Gabriel Lima)
Kind - Coletor, São Paulo - BR
Soft - Casa do Povo, São Paulo - BR
www.postcodes.com.br

2013
Wet-on-Wet - Gallery Weingrüll, Karlsruhe - D

2012
the work found me, Gallery Samy Abraham, Paris - F

2011
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe - Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen - CH

2009 - 2011
the forever ending story (with Raphael Linsi, Claudio Vogt and Tilmann Schlevogt) www.theforeverendingstory.com

2009 - 2010
Deuxpiece (with Noëmi Denzler) www.deuxpiece.com

2008
Wirtshaus im Schalter (with Raphael Linsi), www.schalter.tk

2007
Wirzhaus (with Raphael Linsi und Luiz Albisser), www.myspace.com/wirzhaus